Smallest SPS Dominated Reef Tank

Here's a small tabular form reef from back in the day
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all apologies for the brown sps we were just out of the nineties and it was uncut ground lol.
dude thats nut's!
 
Thanks man
the controversial part - feesh

So hopefully it's clear that yes on any normal planet one shouldn't keep marine fish in a half gallon. On every planet

But

This was a rule breaking tank already... it didn't take topoff, was sealed when the lid was on and the refugium pumped the oxygen, and it was sps where sps shouldn't grow but did... So the right fish was the panda goby

It was happy and fed well on bs

Tiny... Sixty body lengths in the tank plus you know these aren't pelagic swimmers like tangs an sps branch was fine considering good water params in place and they were
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The system did not require freshwater topoff and never strayed from .023 given good sealing which had to be re kalked time to time
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If anyone can locate any earlier reference showing any size reef aquarium containing thriving scleractinian corals that did not evaporate at all, no topoff ever, ill paypal you fifty bucks. I think that above is the first sealed reef tank.
 
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Thanks man
the controversial part - feesh

So hopefully it's clear that yes on any normal planet one shouldn't keep marine fish in a half gallon. On every planet

But

This was a rule breaking tank already... it didn't take topoff, was sealed when the lid was on and the refugium pumped the oxygen, and it was sps where sps shouldn't grow but did... So the right fish was the panda goby

It was happy and fed well on bs

Tiny... Sixty body lengths in the tank plus you know these aren't pelagic swimmers like tangs an sps branch was fine considering good water params in place and they were
liftsubmicro.jpg


fingergoby.jpg


The system did not require freshwater topoff and never strayed from .023 given good sealing which had to be re kalked time to time
Dcp_0041.jpg



Freshwater.5Fill.jpg


Empty.5.jpg


If anyone can locate any earlier reference showing any size reef containing thriving scleractinian corals that did not evaporate at all, no topoff ever, ill paypay you fifty bucks. I think that above is the first sealed reef tank.
Mind blower.
 

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